STO 



STO 



ber of tubes of different sizes, will 

 answer for oxen, horses, or sheep 

 The instrument consists of a syringe, 

 a, having a side opening, b, and an 

 ordinary opening at the i)ottoni, d. It 

 is used both for throwing fluid into 

 the stomach, &.C., and removing it 

 from the liody. Fig. 1 shows the lix- 

 ture for injections. The extremity, 

 d, is placed into the pail of water, &;c., 

 and a long probang screwed on to the 

 side opening, b ; by pumping, the flu- 

 id is driven along the probang or in- 

 jection tube. When used to remove 

 matters from the stomach, the pro- 

 bang is screwed on to the lower end, 

 d, and introduced : the fluid from the 

 stomach passes out at b {Fig. 2). 



Where matters are to be removed 

 from the stomach, tepid water is first 

 injected ; the syringe is then un- 

 screwed from the probang at b, and 

 screwed on at d. It is now a stom- 

 ach pump, and will draw any thin flu- 

 ids out of the stomach. 



The introduction of the pump is ef- 

 fected by the help of an assistant, who 

 holds the animal by a horn and the 

 dividing cartilage of the nose ; the 

 operator now takes the tongue in the 

 left hand, and introduces the tube 

 with the right, the assistant holding 

 the head and neck in a straight line, 

 so as to assist the passage. The 

 jaws are kept open by a regular bit 

 of perforated wood, or by any piece of 

 stick introduced between the teeth. 



STOMATA. Minute openings on 

 the under side of most leaves. They 

 are surrounded by small cellules, 

 which have the power of shutting 

 them up. 



STONE. A weight of 14 pounds. 



STONE CROP. Small, succulent 

 plants of the genus Sedum, growing 

 on old walls and roofs. 



STOOK and STOOKING. The 

 same as shock and shocking. 



STOOL. " The root of a tree or 

 plant, similar to the oak, beech, elm, 

 &c., which throws up shoots. Cop- 

 pice wood consists chiefly of the 

 shoots sent up by the roots or stools 

 of trees or shrubs which have been 

 cut over by the surface. In general, 

 all dicotyledonous trees are endowed 

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by nature with the property of send- 

 ing up shoots from the stump or 

 stools ; but this is not the case with 

 most of the gymnosperms or conif- 

 erous trees. A wood of pines or firs, 

 therefore, when once cut down, can 

 never be renewed except bv seeds." 



STORK'S BILL. The genera 

 Frodmm and Geranium, which fur- 

 nish many beautiful flowers : tliey are 

 propagated chiefly by slips. 



STORY POST. An upright post 

 or timber to support a floormg, &c. 



STOVE. " In horticulture, a struc- 

 ture in which plants are cultivated 

 that require a considerably higher 

 temperature than the open air. There 

 are two or three kinds of stoves, but 

 tlie principal are the dry stove and 

 the damp stove. The dry stove is a 

 structure, the atmosphere of which 

 is heated to the temperature of from 

 55° to 60° during winter, in which 

 are chiefly cultivated succulents, such 

 as the different species of Ceretus, 

 Cereus, Slaphelia, Euphorbia, Mescm- 

 bryanthcinum, and other succulents 

 having similar habits. During win- 

 ter these plants require very little wa- 

 ter, and during summer they require 

 intense heat, and abundance of air 

 and water during fine weather. The 

 damp stove, sometimes also called 

 the bark stove, requires a tempera- 

 ture of between 60° and 70' during 

 winter, with a proportionate increase 

 during summer, accompanied, in both 

 seasons, with a high degree of at- 

 mosplierieal moisture. This moist- 

 ure is produced partly by evaporation 

 from the bark bed in which the plants 

 are plunged, but chiefly by watering 

 the floor of the house, and by syr- 

 inging the plants. During summer 

 the plants in the bark stove require 

 all the light which the atmosphere in 

 this country is capable of producing, 

 together with abundance of air, as in 

 the dry stove. Both stoves are heat- 

 ed by smoke flues, or by hot water or 

 steam, circulated in metallic or other 

 tubes. The plants cultivated in the 

 moist stove are exclusively those of 

 the tropics ; and those which require 

 the highest degree of heat are chiefly 

 monocotyledonous plants, such as the 



